Watts, Fremont

WATTS, COOK, KILGORE, STONE, COLLINS

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Date: 4/4/2003 at 16:28:46

Source: "The 1901 Biographical Record of Clinton Co., Iowa, Illustrated" published: Chicago : S. J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1901.

FREMONT WATTS.

One of the most progressive and enterprising agriculturists of Deep Creek township is Fremont Watts, who was born there on the 7th of June, 1862, and is a son of Thomas Watts, who is represented elsewhere in this work. He acquired his early education in the district schools near his boyhood home, and also attended the preparatory school at Fulton, Illinois. He remained under the parental roof, and since his father’s death has had charge of the old homestead. In connection with general farming he is successfully engaged in stock raising, making a specialty of the breeding of short-horn cattle.

Mr. Watts was married, March 13, 1879, to Miss Catherine C. Kilgore, a daughter of David and Esther (Cook) Kilgore, both of whom were natives of Indiana. Her father died in 1861, at the age of thirty-one years, and was buried in Illinois, but her mother still survives and now makes her home in Des Moines, Iowa, she being now the wife of Elijah Stone, by whom she has five children. Mrs. Watts is the youngest of the four children born of the first marriage, the others being Alex, who died young; Alice, deceased; and Elizabeth, wife of Houghton Collins, of Greenville, Indiana. Unto our subject and his wife were born seven children: Milo, who died at the age of fifteen years; Sylvia, Thomas, Ruth, Olive and Archie, all at home; and one who died in infancy.

Mr. and Mrs. Watts are both members of the Congregational church of Preston, Jackson county, Iowa, and are people of prominence in the community where they reside. He affiliates with the Republican party, and is now efficiently serving as township trustee.